Poe’s writing in the short story can be put into one category.Horror.Poe’s writing can be put into horror because throughout the story he uses fear,mystery,suspense,spoiler and surprise. Right from the beginning he uses spoiler when he says “ I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.”Also in the end he says “Villains!,Dissemble no more! i admit !”-it is the beating of his hideous heart the deed!-tear up the planks!-here,here!He spoils the story when he says that .But it also opens the story to explain how and why he killed the man.This method of spoiler works in movies and other stories for example in the twilight series the movie always starts with a saying that foreshadows the main problem in the